All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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